"It'll make me cry, so I can't really—" she begins in the clip above before getting choked up. "I can't really talk about it. I don't know why it makes me so upset...I couldn't fake it. Just, my grandma sitting here, my mom's here and I go home to my seven dogs and if I didn't have that anymore it'd just be really hard."

"So I'm really happy to help any way that I can," she adds. "And I hope people understand and can put themselves in those people's shoes and just know what it feels like to have everything taken away from you."